Edmund Crispin Quotes

What's more, I don't believe any policeman uses words like "antonym". I don't believe you're a policeman at all.

Edmund Crispin

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• So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Directors
  • Europe

• Prayer is man's greatest power!

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Power
  • Man
  • Prayer

• I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Good
  • Different
  • Long

• Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Soul

• Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Christian
  • Values
  • Roots

• I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Character
  • Think
  • Now

• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Women
  • Vote
  • Count

• It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Me

• Education technology and school construction go together. Modernization, updating education facilities, and making a capital investment in education are all included.

  

  Major Owens
  • School
  • Together
  • Education

• Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Vote
  • Counts
  • Counted

• As woman was the first to be tempted, so did God's message of grace come first to a woman, and each time woman's assent determined the destiny of humanity as a whole.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Time
  • God
  • Humanity

• My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Life

• This is the essential importance of the Alliance for Better Campaigns' efforts backed by Common Cause. It is our campaign to give free time to all legitimate candidates. … What our campaign asks is that the television industry yield just a tiny percentage of that windfall, less than 1 percent, to fund free airtime.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Free

• All that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Long
  • Trying

• 'One thing there's no getting by- I've been a wicked girl.' said I; 'But if I can't be sorry, why,  I might as well be glad!'

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Why
  • Girl
  • Sorry

• Hero tales suggest the price of courage is beyond the ordinary budget. They tempt us to disown the common capacity of the human spirit to transcend normality.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Courage
  • Hero

• The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.

  

  Adam Smith
  • High
  • Road
  • Safety

• My first instrument was the piano; I played in the church, and before that I sang in church. I didn't learn the guitar until I was 24 years old.

  

  Chuck Brown
  • Church

• As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix.

  

  Matt Schulze
  • Rock
  • Italian

• More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not there just to illustrate the text but to replace it, to tell their own story.

  

  Marissa Moss
  • Work
  • Free
  • Words

• Generally speaking, punishment makes men hard and cold; it concentrates; it sharpens the feeling of alienation; it strengthens the power of resistance.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Men
  • Power
  • Feeling

• Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • People
  • Up
  • Balance

• It's absolutely fine to think of new ways of doing things, and I'm not just asking for the traditional reporter to look into our living rooms night after night.

  

  Jonathan Dimbleby
  • Night

• What's more, I don't believe any policeman uses words like "antonym". I don't believe you're a policeman at all.

  

  Edmund Crispin
  • Words
  • Don't Believe
  • Policeman